Briefing Note Antimicrobial Resistance: An Emerging Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Issue

This manual for developing national action plans to address antimicrobial resistance has been developed at the request of the World Health Assembly to assist countries in the

Three countries had no guidelines for surveillance of use/or sales of antimicrobials (phase 1); in four countries, the national policy and plan on surveillance of

Member States at the Sixty-eight World Health Assembly in May 2015 (28) committed to ensure, for as long as possible, continuity of successful treatment and prevention of

A recent WHO evaluation of public- facing antibiotic awareness campaigns highlighted that the majority of campaigns are not based on behaviour-change theory and campaign

The WHO Global Principles for Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance in Animals Intended for Food, the OIE International Standards on Antimicrobial Resistance, the Codex Code

The interventions identified as most feasible and important largely reflect existing regional priorities for essential drugs and biologicals and include: training

Effective implementation of national and global action plans to address antimicrobial resistance depends also on access, inter alia, to health facilities, health

Support is multisectoral, and there is increasing collaboration between the human health, animal health and agriculture sectors (including a tripartite collaboration agreed